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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2026· Updated Jul 9, 2026

Serena: Unauthenticated Flask dashboard on fixed port enables DNS rebinding → memory poisoning → RCE

CVE-2026-49471

Description

Serena is a powerful MCP toolkit for coding that provides semantic retrieval and editing capabilities. Prior to v1.5.2, Serena's built-in web dashboard exposes an unauthenticated Flask API on a fixed, predictable port, with no authentication, no CSRF protection, and no Host header validation. A DNS rebinding attack allows a malicious webpage to reach this API from any browser and write arbitrary content to the agent's persistent memory store, which the agent reads and acts on autonomously. Combined with execute_shell_command using shell=True, this creates a remote code execution chain requiring only that the victim visit a malicious webpage while Serena is running. This issue is fixed in version v1.5.2.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
serena-agentPyPI
< 1.5.21.5.2

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